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From NASA’s Earth Observatory:

There have been many images of the full disc of Earth from space – a view often referred to as “the Blue Marble” – but few have looked quite like this. Using natural-color images from the Visible/Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the recently launched Suomi-NPP satellite, a NASA scientist has compiled a new view showing the Arctic and high latitudes.

Stewart Brand must love this! Inspired in part by by Buckminster Fuller, Brand created the Whole Earth Catalog and helped convince NASA to release the 1st image of our planet taken from space.